Romantic love...is, as Yeats says, a discipline:Each divines the secret self of the other, and refusing to believe in the mere daily self, creates a mirror where the lover or the beloved sees an image to copy in daily life.— Jacques Barzun,Stendhal on Love, The Energies of Art, Vintage Edition, 1961, p. 111
It is your mere daily self in Early Summer that I love, the corporeal self in Late Spring and Tokyo Story who needs no mirror.
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